AI for Social Work Organizations: Strategic Planning and Policy Implementation for Your Agency

AI for Social Work Organizations: Strategic Planning and Policy Implementation for Your Agency

📅 Date: Thursday,  June 26, 2025
⏰ Time: 1:00PM-3:00PM EST
💻 Format: Live Webinar
🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Marina Badillo-Diaz, DSW, LCSW, SIFI
📢 Earn 2.0 Continuing Education Credit Hours
(For licensed social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists.)

Pricing

• NASW-NYS or NASW-NYC Members: $30
• NASW Other Chapter Members: $50
• Non-Members: $60
• NASW-NYS Student & Transitional Members: Non-CU FREE

Workshop Description

1. This workshop is tailored for social workers seeking to strategically implement AI into their agency or organization. This session will guide participants through an AI Implementation Roadmap structured into four pivotal phases, supporting the integration of generative AI into social work practices aligned with an organization’s vision for providing social work services. The workshop will review these 4 critical phases:

   1. Initiating Foundational Knowledge and Data Collection: Beginning with an assessment phase on collecting information from stakeholders on AI needs and concerns in order to provide a solid foundation for a successful AI integration strategy.  

   2. Enhancing Staff Professional Development: Generating professional development plans to tailoring professional growth of social work staff, boosting their proficiency in AI literacy. The aim is to cultivate a workforce that is not only skilled in AI applications but also committed to ethical utilization and the adoption of responsible practices that aligned with the values of social work.  

   3. Policy Creation and Effective Dissemination: Steps on crafting AI policies, drawing upon the insights from a broad range of stakeholders. Developing policies that are not only comprehensive but also shareable and actionable, facilitating smooth adoption and implementation across organizations.  

2. During the session, participants will be provided a guide for a personalized action plan offering a clear, actionable strategy for integrating AI within their agency’s existing structures and service models. Participants will be provided a free tool kit on implementing AI policies and strategic planning for social work organizations including examples of assessment and data collection, focus group discussions, AI policy templates, and professional development resources.  

Learning Objectives:  

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the essential components of an effective AI implementation roadmap for strategic planning. 

• Develop strategies for creating foundational AI policies and guidelines within your organization or agency. 

• Explain ways to integrate generative AI into your organization’s vision and strategic plan to improve service delivery and outcomes. 

About the Presenter

Dr. Badillo-Diaz is an experienced school administrator and counseling director with a demonstrated history of working in community mental health and in education as a social worker. Currently, Dr. Badillo-Diaz is a consultant focusing on the training of educators and social workers with MABD Consulting. She is also an adjunct professor and former board member of the National School Social Work Association of America from 2022-24. She is also the author of the blog, “The AI Social Worker”, a 21st Century Skills and AI guide for Social Workers. Her areas of interest include 21st-century skills, social-emotional learning programming, school social work practice, education, youth mental health, clinical supervision for social workers, AI Applications, data management, and career development.